grommit5
Warlord
forgot all about romance of the three kingdoms. i should pull that one out for old times.
There were lots of computer games out there before civ. I had a C-64 that had tons of dungeons-n-dragons kinds of programs. Early PC games that had to run in DOS were a total pain in the neck: Does anyone else remember spending days rewriting config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get those things to run?
You bet I can. F-15 III was the biggest pain in th a.. - required 621 kb free DOS mem!!!
But I did it. As annoying as it was, but in those days you still had a chance to solve hardware/driver issues on your own.
Today if our great XP operating sys does not like the driver, you're basically doomed.
There were lots of computer games out there before civ. I had a C-64 that had tons of dungeons-n-dragons kinds of programs. Early PC games that had to run in DOS were a total pain in the neck: Does anyone else remember spending days rewriting config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get those things to run?
My first computer was a C-64. Here I mostly played games made by SSI: Colonial Conquest, a nice game for its time between Civ and Risk (but without a techtree), USAAF by Gary Grigsby (here I can remember, that it was very pleasing to catch these P-38´s over a certain hight) and some other strategy games. Than my C-64 got assistance by a Sinclair that my father didn´t need any longer. Desert Rats and Operation Vulcan were nice games to play on that machine. All were war-games. I have all these games until today. Than came "Pirates". After pirates I had enough money to move to a pc. Just in time for Civ 1 and MOO 1 (that I prefered over Civ 1).
Edited: Just looked in my USAAF handbook: It was the P-38 and not the P-47 with a reduced mv-rating in altitudes equal or above 20.000 feet.
One game that paved the way to civ for me was Empire and Empire Deluxe. Good stuff.